Campo has a favorite at free safety

The job opened up on Good Friday, when Dallas released Ken Hamlin. The other in-house are veteran Pat Watkins and second-year player Mike Hamlin, who Campo considers a rookie because the Clemson alum was limited special teams play last season.

Ball, meanwhile, started a handful of games at safety after Hamlin went down with an injury.

“I think Alan Ball is the guy we’re pointing toward because I think he showed in the games he was in last year that he was capable of making that transition,” Campo said. “The great thing about him was if you watch the first game he played at safety last season, I went, ‘Oh, brother,’ because he missed two or three tackles. But Aln is all-out with everything he does. If you watch him doing a pedaling drill, it’s like the last play of the Super Bowl. I have to tell him to slow down and relax.”